Title IX

The Georgia school district said it was investigating the baseball players for “misbehavior” and “inappropriate physical contact.” What it didn’t reveal was that a younger teammate had reported being sexually assaulted. Even after players were later disciplined for sexual battery, the district cited student confidentiality to withhold details from the public and used “hazing” to […]

Source: The Atlantic OCT 20, 2015 These policies can perpetuate discrimination against female students, as well as LGBT students. Maggie Sunseri was a middle-school student in Versailles, Kentucky, when she first noticed a major difference in the way her school’s dress code treated males and females. Girls were disciplined disproportionately, she says, a trend she’s […]

But Title IX does include a special exemption for religious schools. Any school run by a religious organization can ask to ignore Title IX. Theschools can make this request if they believe Title IX disagrees with theirreligious beliefs. For example, some schools that train men to be members of the clergy ask to deny access to women. […]